Friday, March 16, 2018

A paper tiger is someone who at first glance seems to be in charge but who, on closer examination, is completely powerless.

This phrase comes from an old Chinese idiom, which describes a paper tiger as a "blustering, harmless fellow," and which was popularized when Mao Zedong was quoted in 1956 calling the United States a paper tiger.

Friday, February 9, 2018

I read a story recently about an underwater mailbox off the coast of Sasumi, Japan, the only one in the world. That's pretty cool and something I'd like to see one day if I weren't such a poor swimmer.

If you ever go to Disneyland, you can see Monstro, the giant whale from Pinocchio. When I was little, Monstro terrified me. His eye! His eye MOVED! I swore he was alive, and I'd be in tears as my dad carried me closer to him. I probably tried to claw my way out of his arms like a cat being dragged to a bath. There's a little boat that you can ride that takes you through Monstro's gaping maw to Storybook Land, which to this day I have never done.

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Mea Culpa

Dilettante Extraordinaire.
I'm an advertiser-turned psychologist-turned stay-at-home mom, caught between yearnings for intellectual stimulation and creative explosion and not being able to do either with full conviction.